Bascombe mutiny

The Bascombe mutiny occurred between the night of 20 November to the morning of 21 November 1776 when a group of Pennsylvania soldiers in the Continental Army - all from the Bascombe family - mutinied in northern New Jersey and attempted to arrest General Charles Scott and Captain Benjamin Tallmadge and turn them in to the British Army for pardons. The mutiny occurred shortly after Nathanael Greene ordered the evacuation of Fort Lee, with refugees encountering the Bascombes and telling them that George Washington had been killed and that the American Revolutionary War was almost over. The mutineers wounded Scott in the leg during their siege of the Standish household, where the officers were given refuge, and they killed Gideon Standish after he shot Bige Bascombe dead. The siege lasted until the next morning, when Tallmadge and Scott left the house and killed Eben and Quill Bascombe, with Newt standing aside at Tallmadge's request. However, the cruel Scott decided that there was no time for a trial, and he summarily executed Newt. The mutiny left all four of the Bascombe soldiers and Gideon Standish dead, and it was one of the many mutinies by disaffected soldiers that would occur during the war.